Reports

7 June 2012 : Since 1 January 2012, an outbreak of meningitis has been reported in 42 districts in 10 African countries, and contributed to some 11,000 cases, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO).…

Highlights UNICEF is responding to a double emergency in Burkina Faso where the nutrition and refugee crises are affecting almost 3 million people. Out of an estimated 100,000 children under 5 with Severe Acute Malnutrition in 2012,…

Geneva – It has come to the attention of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that a portion of anti-malaria bed nets distributed in Burkina Faso in 2010 were not treated with insecticide. Approximately…

Humanitarian chief supports Burkina Faso’s approach to food crisis: Address urgent needs now and build resilience to future emergencies (Ouagadougou/New York, 22 May 2012) The United Nations and its partners are supporting the efforts…

1. Executive Summary The food security and nutrition crisis in the Sahel will affect an estimated 18 million people this year, and over one million children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition. In Burkina Faso, a deficit…

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KEY DEVELOPMENTS As part of USAID’s ongoing humanitarian efforts in the Sahel, USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Director and USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) Deputy Director, joined by Washington, D.C. and field-based…

Burkina Faso: Treating Malnutrition and Caring for Malian Refugees In the wake of violent clashes between Mali's army, Tuareg rebels, and other groups active in northern Mali, nearly 46,000 Malians have fled their country and taken refuge…

Highlights Planned scale up of the management from 45% to 100% of the 100,000 Severe Acute Malnutrition cases in under 5 children in 2012 UNICEF approach is to accelerate the implementation of the national scaling up nutrition plan…

ECOWAS and the Republic of Cuba have agreed new measures to revive their collaboration towards the elimination of malaria in West Africa by 2015 through a control and elimination programme. The measures are contained in a framework…